Citing your sources serves three purposes:
It gives proper credit to the authors of the words or ideas that you incorporated into your paper.
It allows those who are reading your work to locate your sources, in order to learn more about the ideas that you include in your paper.
Citing your sources consistently and accurately helps you avoid committing plagiarism in your writing.
RefWorks is a research management tool that makes it easy to save references to books, articles, and web pages and organize them into your own personal research library.
Using a citation manager like Refworks can save you time and keep your research organized!
How do I create a RefWorks account?
To create an account:
- Go to https://refworks.proquest.com/signup/
- Enter your Rutgers email address and create a password
- Click the activation link in the confirmation email to complete your account setup
Step #4 The Scholarly Conversation & Citation Chase Challenge
- Scan the page.
- Watch the video, “The Scholarly Conversation & Citation Chase Challenge.” In addition to the two in-video questions, this video walks you through completing a citation chase.
- Prepare your answer for Discussion Question #4 which you will post in Canvas at the end of this lesson.
- Citation Chase Challenge: Post in Canvas your One Great Article citation, reference list citation, and a "Cited by" article citation (if you found one relevant to your topic).
Discussion Question #4
What was the “Cited by” number of the great article you used in the Citation Chase challenge? What kinds of conclusions or judgements can you make based on that number?
Canvas Discussion Post Assignment
These are the discussion questions from each step:
- Share something new or interesting you learned about your topic from a background resource. Include the name of the resource.
- Share something new you learned about the Rutgers library website or library resources. Did you face any hurdles searching for information you needed?
- Identify a possible data source for your paper. What makes it an authoritative source for your topic?
- What was the “Cited by” number of the great article you used in the Citation Chase challenge? What kinds of conclusions or judgements can you make based on that number?
- Citation Chase Challenge: Post in Canvas your One Great Article citation, reference list citation, and a "Cited by" article citation (if you found one relevant to your topic).